Plant-protector.



S. N. SLADB.

PLANT PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1914.

1,1 17,265. Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

l lr wentor Attorneys THE NORRIS PETERS C0., PHOTO-L|THO.. WASHING-TON. D. C.

" UNITED snares PATENT carton.-

sTAnKIE Norman SLADE, or DURHAM, nonrn CAROLINA.

type which will afford the necessary ventilationand at the same time keep out insects, killing frosts and worms.

Another object of the invention is to provide a plant protector which may be fashioned at trifling expense, the construction being such that several protectors may readily be nested in U-form when not in use and be stored in small compass.

It is within the scope of the inventmnto improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view' which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the (16? tails of construction hereinafter described;

and claimed it being understood that changes inthe precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing:Figure l shows'the invention in longitudinal section; Fig. 2 is a front elevation; Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section taken through the bottom portion of the protector; Fig. l is a fraginental section of the protector looking toward the side thereof.

The plant protector herein disclosed preferably is fashioned from a sheet of metal indicated by the reference character 1, the sheet 1 being rolled to form a tube. Along its longitudinal edges, the sheet 1 is equipped with detachably interengaged hook flanges 2, the construction being such that when the protector is not in use, several protectors may readily be nested in U-form, thereby to economize space in storing. On the forward end of the protector, fingers or shoulders3 are formed. The fingers 3 are spaced from the bottom of the protector. A glass plate 4 is supported bythe fingers 3 and is held by the fingers against the mouth of the protector, so that the plate cannot Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 12, 1914:. Serial NO. $38,130.

is claimed is V 1. A plant protector comprising a tube PLANT-PROTECTOR.)

Patented Nov. it, 19121.

readily be blownoff. The width of the plate at is lessthan the diameter of the. tube, so that at the top and at the bottom of the tube air openings 5 and6 exist.

A screen 7, which may be a piece of wire netting, covers the lower air opening 6 and prevents insects from entering. The screen 7 preferably is upheld by being hooked over the fingers 3. The fingers 3,,therefore, exer cise a double function in thatthey. serve to hold the glass plate 4 in place and serve also as a means for holding the screen 7 in place.

, Further, because the screen 7 is interen'gaged' with the fingers 3, the screen acts as a brace and tends to prevent the tubular protector from losing 1ts shape, and notably, tends to prevent the interengaged hook flanges 2 from becoming disengaged. Owing to the fact that the openings 5 and 6 exist at the top and atthe bottom of the protector, beyond the edges of the glass plate 4, an amplev circulation; of air is provided for. In this connection it is to be noted that the forward edges of the tube are beveled adjacent the top, as at 25, thus to afford ventilation in a lateral direction. The screen 7 is first mounted on the fingers 3 as shown in Fig. 4 and then the glass plate 4: is mounted in place. The depending lip 26 of the screen which lies to the rear of the fingers 3 aids in holding the plate 4 against displacement.

In applying the protector herein disclosed, a furrow 8 is turned over, and into one side of the furrow 8 the protector is inserted, the protector preferably being disposed at an upward slant of about forty-five degrees with respect to the horizontal and, in this latitude facing toward the south. The seed is planted within the contour of the protector and preferably at a distance of an inch and a half or so from the inner extremity of the protector.

In claiming the invention, the'word bottom is used to indicate that portion of the tube which appears in section hand side of Fig. 1.

. Having thus described the invention, what having shoulders at its end and spaced from the bottom of the tube; and a transparent,

plate supported on the shoulders, the width of the plate being less than the diameter of the tube to provide air openings adjacent the topand the bottom of the plate and'in the end of the tube. l

at the right 2. A plant protector comprising a tube having shoulders at its mouth and spaced from the bottom of the tube; a transparent plate supported on the shoulders, the width of the plate being less than the diameter of the tube thereby provide air openings at the top and the bottom of the tube; and a screen covering the air opening at the bottom of the tube, the screen being interlocked with the shoulders.

3. A plant protector comprising a tube having shoulders at its mouth and spaced from the bottom of the tube; a transparent plate supported on the shoulders; and a screen covering the space between the lower edge of the plate and the bottom of the tube, the screen being supported on the shoulders.

4. A plant protector comprising a tube having shoulders at its end and spaced from the bottom of the tube; a transparentplate supported on the shoulders and spaced from the bottom of the tube to define a lower air opening, the end edge of the tube being beveled adjacent its top and to the rear of the plate; the shoulders cooperating with the forward face of the plate to hold the rear face of the plate apart from the upper portions of said beveled edges thereby to define upper lateral air openings between the rear face of the plate and the end of the tube.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

STARKIE NORMAN SLADE.

WVitnesses JV. J. BnoeDnN, O. H. GARVEIL Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

